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Let\'s talk coil packs shall we?
Okay so today while at work I went into research about the MSD Ford Coil Pack, 4-Tower, PN 8241 and the Performance Distributors Screamin Demon Coil pack. NOW. I talked to a tech at MSD. He was very vague on the details of this Coil Pack. He didn't know whether it would fit our engine and he didn't know much about bigger gapping of the spark plugs. I also talked to someone at Jegs. Both didn't know if they would fit our cars. They are made for a DOHC 4.6 liter CObra Motor. I think they will. They look EXACTLY like each other down to the minute details. Both agreed that the new coil wouldn't need more gap unless you had more performance running through the car. But they did agree that it should help in fuel efficiency. The tech at MSD also said something about the wires may not fit on the coil pack which sounded weird to me since I do have MSD Superconductor wires right now and you'd figure they would fit. Overall the guy from Jegs was MUCH more helpful and friendly. The MSD tech was talking "Jibberish" about the technical terms while the guy at Jegs was just speaking in Lamens terms. But I got no help as to whether it should fit or not. But if FORD did use the same coil pack on the Zetec and Cobra you'd think that it would be able to take much more heat than just a few boltons right?
Now I think I'm going to order it and see if it works. If not I will return it. But if it does work this will be another option for all of us Foci enthusiast.
Now please take a look at these two pics and tell me if they look identical (which I think they do). Edit: Apparently Accel makes one and a Focus owner has already installed one and confirmed it works nicely and he felt a difference above 4000 rpms.
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Okay so today while at work I went into research about the MSD Ford Coil Pack, 4-Tower, PN 8241 and the Performance Distributors Screamin Demon Coil pack. NOW. I talked to a tech at MSD. He was very vague on the details of this Coil Pack. He didn't know whether it would fit our engine and he didn't know much about bigger gapping of the spark plugs. I also talked to someone at Jegs. Both didn't know if they would fit our cars. They are made for a DOHC 4.6 liter CObra Motor. I think they will. They look EXACTLY like each other down to the minute details. Both agreed that the new coil wouldn't need more gap unless you had more performance running through the car. But they did agree that it should help in fuel efficiency. The tech at MSD also said something about the wires may not fit on the coil pack which sounded weird to me since I do have MSD Superconductor wires right now and you'd figure they would fit. Overall the guy from Jegs was MUCH more helpful and friendly. The MSD tech was talking "Jibberish" about the technical terms while the guy at Jegs was just speaking in Lamens terms. But I got no help as to whether it should fit or not. But if FORD did use the same coil pack on the Zetec and Cobra you'd think that it would be able to take much more heat than just a few boltons right?
Now I think I'm going to order it and see if it works. If not I will return it. But if it does work this will be another option for all of us Foci enthusiast.
Now please take a look at these two pics and tell me if they look identical (which I think they do). Edit: Apparently Accel makes one and a Focus owner has already installed one and confirmed it works nicely and he felt a difference above 4000 rpms.
